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...toilet is enclosed in an undulate black fiber-glass column that rises to the ceiling. There are no walls between sleeping, living and bath areas, which are raised two steps above the sitting and eating zones...
What are the differences among these tires? In the bias-ply tires, the rubber tread is attached to a casing made of crisscross layers of rayon or nylon (see diagram). The belted models are built the same way, but in addition they have two or more rigid belts of fiber glass encircling the tire under the tread. Helped by these extra belts, the tire grips the road better, wears up to 15% or 20% longer, is less likely to be punctured. In the radials, the casing cords run in straight lines instead of a crisscross pattern, and as many...
...said God is dead and the Catholic Church is archaic and unprogressive? He and it are very much alive in every fiber of Dan and Phil Berrigan [Jan. 25] -in their courageous mad struggle for some kind of human decency...
Chile had an earthquake, Pakistan got a tidal wave, and the United States ended up with Santa Claus. Yet, we have celebrated our disaster and have been too shallow to realize the damage he has done to our moral fiber...
Complex Procedures. Nerve surgery is frustratingly complex. Many nerve fibers are finer than sewing thread, have branchings that are difficult to locate and even harder to suture. The nerve fiber used in an autogenous graft is rarely more than two millimeters wide. Surgeons use a ten-power microscope, hair-thin sutures and exceedingly delicate instruments. The microscope magnifies the nerve enough to make it look as large as a piece of string...